The Republic of Sudan, Africa's third largest country by size, has been ravaged by war for the past eleven months. The conflict between the Sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid support forces or the RSF erupted on the 15th of April. The RSF, helmed by Mohamed Hamadan Dagalo and the army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, had shared power with civilians after the 2019 overthrow of former strongman Omar Al-Bashir. And in 2021, the army and the RSF joined hands together to stage a coup. But relations soured between the army and the RSF over the planned integration of the paramilitary RSF into the regular army, an internationally backed political transition plan. Since the fighting began in mid-April, it has displaced more than 8 million people, left the capital Khartoum in ruins, precipitated a humanitarian crisis and triggered ethnically driven killings in Darfur. Now, in the most significant advance against its paramilitary rival RSF, the Sudanese army, on the 12th of March, claimed to have recaptured the headquarters of the state broadcaster in Omdurman. The RSF had held the headquarters since just after the fighting erupted in mid-April.

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